Exhaustion

As weeks go this was supposed to be a pretty important one. It's almost as if this was the week in my life that was going to define how things were going to be moving forward. Firstly, as I mentioned in my previous blog, I was going to be travelling up to London on my…

Meeting Big Brother

I was incredibly fortunate the other week to receive an invitation from Channel 5 to come to London and meet with Paul Osbourne - the new Creative Director of the forthcoming Celebrity Big Brother series, as well as returning Executive Editor Tamsin Dodgson. I've been lucky enough over the past couple of years to also…

Crashing

I've hit a bit of a low today, after a few weeks of feeling pretty much level. I think I understand why it is that my mood has dropped suddenly this time but that doesn't make it any easier to deal with. I've got a particularly busy week this week. This morning I spent seeking…

Getting better

So things have been pretty good over the past couple of weeks in terms of my mental health. I feel like my current combination of meds are doing the job that they're supposed to do and that my overall mood has been greatly improved. It's like the big, thick cloud of black fog that has…

Too hot to think

My mind isn't really all there at the moment. I think perhaps it's a combination of the sheer amount of time that I've been away from work, and the frankly astonishing heatwave that has recently descended upon the UK. I mean, it's hot. Ridiculously hot. So hot in fact that in a similar fashion to…

A rough guide to depression

For today’s blog I thought I would write a bit about the various aspects of suffering with a mental illness and in some cases my own experiences of them. This isn’t by any means meant to be a complete guide to depression or an encyclopaedia of anxiety, but I hope it some way it helps…